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The love-hate relationship between entrepreneurs and academicians
Sources of information in this article: Daily Economic News, Sina Weibo, the official website of the National Academy of Engineering
On February 9, the American Academy of Engineering released the list of additional academicians of the National Academy of Engineering in 2021, and a total of 111 American academicians and 22 foreign academicians were selected this time. One of the most notable is Elon Musk.
Musk said on social media, "I usually describe myself as an engineer. It's basically something I've been doing since I was a kid."
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The National Academy of Engineering is the highest level of academic institution in the field of engineering science and technology in the United States, and being elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering is one of the highest professional honors for experts in the field of engineering. As the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk only has a bachelor's degree, which is also an important reason for him to become the focus of the US Academy of Engineering academician co-election.
An interesting fact is that the American Academy of Engineering is both one of the most authoritative national engineering academies in the world and one of the national engineering academies with the largest number of entrepreneurs. Many of the founders of companies we know are members of the American Academy of Engineering. For example, Amazon's founder, Bezos, is also a member of the American Academy of Engineering, and he was elected in 2018.
Apple founder Steve Jobs was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Engineering in 1997.
Both founders of Google are members of the American Academy of Engineering, with Larry Page elected in 2004 and Sergey Brin in 2009.
Larry Page
Sergey Brin
Chairman and CEO Nadella, Satya was also elected to the U.S. Academy of Engineering at Microsoft, whose founder Bill Gates is both an academician of the American Academy of Engineering and a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Engineering in 1996 and a foreign fellow of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2017. He was also the only person in 2017 to be elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering as an entrepreneur.
In fact, since 2017, the same year that Bill Gates was elected, more and more entrepreneurs and business workers have been shortlisted for the nomination list of academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. In 2019, the total number of entrepreneurs nominated exceeded 110. In the just-concluded 2021 Chinese Academy of Engineering academician co-election list, there are also quite a number of entrepreneurs and scientific and technological workers from enterprises.
Although there is a view that academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering are more inclined to the field of applied science than academicians of the Academy of Sciences. Applied science is often combined with industry, education and research, and there is nothing wrong with choosing entrepreneurs to become academicians of the Academy of Engineering. However, from the practice of various countries, usually those countries choose entrepreneurs to become academicians of their own engineering academies, which is more often a "business". I give you a little, you give me research funding or you drive this aspect of production in real industry.
It is worth noting that the American Academy of Engineering has a total of 4628 academicians, and there are a total of 2565 academicians who are still alive. There are 1,098 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and a total of 821 academicians are still alive. The number of academicians of the American Academy of Engineering is almost three times that of China. The American Academy of Engineering was formally established in 1964, and the Chinese Academy of Engineering was established in 1994. By year, the number of academicians of the U.S. Academy of Engineering should be about twice that of China.
The American Academy of Engineering has a total of 111 newly elected academicians this year, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences has 84. It is worth noting that due to the different social structures, researchers working for enterprises in the United States are the main force of engineering research. If we ignore the difference between China and the United States in the proportion of technicians from enterprises, assuming that the number of scientific researchers recruited by the U.S. Academy of Engineering is the same as that of China, the U.S. Academy of Engineering is equivalent to providing an additional 27 seats for U.S. entrepreneurs. In addition to traditional habits, the American Academy of Engineering can maintain a high academic reputation while selecting a considerable number of entrepreneurs, right?
In 19 years, Baidu founder Robin Li was nominated as a candidate for academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, which caused an uproar, and many friends must still remember it. The difference between the competitors of the Chinese and American Academy of Engineering Academicians in the selection of shortlisted members, and the difference in the selection criteria are the key to whether entrepreneurs elected as academicians of the Academy of Engineering will be considered by the public as water academicians.
Obviously, many American entrepreneurs, including Musk, are not water academicians for the American Academy of Engineering.
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